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Cyril Kenneth Bird,
pen name Fougasse (
17 December 1887,
London -
11 June 1965,
London) was a British
cartoonist best known for his editorship of
Punch magazine and his iconic
World War II warning
propaganda posters.
The son of Arthur Bird, a company director, he was educated at
Cheltenham College and
King's College London (B.Sc). While at King's College he attended evening art classes at the
Regent Street Polytechnic and at the School of Photo-Engraving in Bolt Court. On 16 Sep 1914 he married Mary Holden Caldwell.
He was seriously injured at the
Battle of Gallipoli during
World War I and invalided out of the British Army (his pen name is based on the
fougasse, a type of mine). He first contributed to
Punch in
1916, while convalescing, and also contributed to several other British newspapers and magazines, including
the Graphic and
Tatler. In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, his drawings evolved from the traditionally representational to an innovative, spare, style that was both unique and popular, featuring in many advertising campaigns as well as in magazine editorial. He became art
editor of
Punch from
1937 to
1949, then editor until
1953. He was the only cartoonist ever to edit the magazine. During
World War II, he worked for free for the
Ministry of Information, designing humorous but effective
propaganda posters including the famous "
Careless Talk Costs Lives" series. For this work he was awarded the honour of
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in
1946.
Among a number of books written and illustrated by Fougasse is
You Have Been Warned (1930), a humorous look at motoring.
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